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Google Wants to Make the Web Faster, Debuts Speed (Not the Drug, the Developer Site)
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 23, 2009 8:27 PM / 8 Comments
The Google Code blog announced today the debut of yet another developer resource, this one focused entirely on making Internet browsing "as fast as turning the pages of a magazine." Continue reading »


As The Sun Sets on MySpace - Who Will Beat Facebook?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 23, 2009 6:16 PM / 39 Comments
The year was 2013. Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg was still the social network's public persona, but he had a young family and new-found loves of world travel, exotic regional cocktails Continue reading »


Chinese Internet Strike Proposed to Protest Censorship Software
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 23, 2009 5:29 PM / 9 Comments
On July 1, the Chinese government will be rolling out censorship software on every new computer sold in the country. The software, called Green Dam Youth Escort, is intended to Continue reading »


Study: Users Spend More Time on Social Networks Than Ever Before, but Twitter's Growth Slows Down
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 23, 2009 10:33 AM / 4 Comments
According to a new study from Nielsen, Internet users spend more time on social networks and blogs in May 2009 than ever before. The total number of minutes increased 82% Continue reading »


Feedinvader: News Ticker and Feed Reader for Firefox
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 23, 2009 9:53 AM / 5 Comments
Feedinvader is an interesting Firefox plugin that combines an online feed reader with a news ticker right underneath your bookmarks bar. The feed reader in the back-end is currently mostly Continue reading »


How to Jailbreak your iPhone to OS 3.0
Written by Sarah Perez / June 23, 2009 8:50 AM / 79 Comments
Now that iPhone's new OS 3.0 is available with all its nifty features like spotlight search, copy and paste, push notifications and maybe one day MMS and tethering, many users Continue reading »


Media-Sharing Site ThisMoment Launches Public Beta
Written by Sarah Perez / June 23, 2009 6:18 AM / 4 Comments
ThisMoment is a new media-sharing site (see our previous coverage) which lets you post photos and videos in a slideshow format while also sharing them across the web to sites Continue reading »


.Me: The New Domain on the Block
Written by RWW Sponsor / June 23, 2009 5:00 AM / 18 Comments
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want Continue reading »


Microsoft & Gnomedex Want More Green Apps, But Developers Must Use Bing API
Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 22, 2009 9:30 PM / 4 Comments
A co-sponsored initiative from Microsoft Bing and Gnomedex will give incentive to developers working on economy- or ecology-themed apps this summer. The Will Code for Green contest calls for submissions Continue reading »


Looks Like Apple is Finally Ready for Push Notifications: AIM and BeejiveIM Go Live
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 22, 2009 8:20 PM / 2 Comments
Just this morning, our own Sarah Perez wondered if Apple wasn't ready for push notifications yet, as only a few push enabled apps had made it into the App Store Continue reading »


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